1st Edition
Teaching World Languages for Social Justice A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices
By Terry A. Osborn
Copyright 2005
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Teaching World Languages for Social Justice: A Sourcebook of Principles and Practices offers principles based on theory, and innovative concepts, approaches, and practices illustrated through concrete examples, for promoting social justice and developing a critical praxis in foreign language classrooms in the U.S. and in wider world language communities. For educators seeking to translate these... Read more
Contents: Preface. Leaving the Marketplace. Dialogical Classrooms: Foundations of a New Foundation. Teacher Preparation as the Basis for Praxis. The Politics of Grammar and Vocabulary. Canon Fire: Why Literature Still Has Its Place. Critical Disclosure and Visual Analysis as Pedagogy. Crossing the Lines: Interdisciplinary Possibilities. A Small Virtual World After All: Communities in Cyberspace. Reconcile! Toward a Unified Discipline. Appendix: Language Spoken at Home for the United States: 2000.
Biography
Osborn, Terry A.
"Osborn’s work represents a wonderful addition to the library of any critical pedagogue-language educators and teacher educators...this book is also an essential read for any undergraduate and graduate teacher preparation program endeavoring to provide beginning teachers as well as more experienced ones with opportunities to critically explore issues and challenges pertinent to the FL teaching world." -- Lauren Cammarata, University of Georgia
